"Is her life very admirable ?" "Extraordinarily." There was so much in the tone that Miss Gostrey had to devote another pause to the appreciation of it.

"And has he only HER?
I don't mean the bad woman in Paris," she quickly added--"for I assure you I shouldn't even at the best be disposed to allow him more than one.

But has he only his mother ?" "He has also a sister, older than himself and married; and they're both remarkably fine women." "Very handsome, you mean ?" This promptitude--almost, as he might have thought, this precipitation, gave him a brief drop; but he came up again.

"Mrs.Newsome, I think, is handsome, though she's not of course, with a son of twenty-eight and a daughter of thirty, in her very first youth.

She married, however, extremely young." "And is wonderful," Miss Gostrey asked, "for her age ?" Strether seemed to feel with a certain disquiet the pressure of it.